Game apparatus.



M- M. DEIBEL.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-20,1816.

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ELM/um MILLIE M. DEIBEL, 0F YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

Application filed-September 20, 1916. Serial No. 121,255.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILLIE M. DEIBEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Youngstown in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a game apparatus and it consists in the novelfeatures hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide a game apparatus comprising aboard having frames mounted thereon which simulate horizontal bars andfigures turnably mounted upon the said frames, the said figures normallyhanging pendant and adapted to be struck by a ball or other missilewhereby they are caused to swing or rotate about the bars or horizontalportions of the frames, the number of turns each figure makes whenstruck indicating a certain score which is counted in favor of theplayer who casts or projects the missile.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the frames that thefigures may hang or catch during their turning movement and when thisoccurs the score may be counted double or may be reduced as a penaltyagainst the player who causes the figure to describe an incompleterotation about the bar of the frame.

In the accompanying drawing Figure l is a plan view of the gameapparatus.

The other figures are detailed views of the features thereof.

The game apparatus comprises a board 1 which is bound on three sides byupstanding flanges 2. Frames 3 are mounted upon the board 1, the saidframes being preferably formed from pieces of wire.

Each frame 3 includes intermediate bar portions 4 which are disposedapproximately horizontal or parallel with the upper surface of theboard 1. Ends of the bar portion 4 merge into upstanding loops or bends5 and from the said loops the side portions of the frames are extendedinto legs 6 which are attached at their lower ends to the boards 1.Suitable score figures 7 are provided upon the upper surface of theboard 1 adjacent the frame 3 and the said score figures may be of anysuitable denomination. Links 8 are provided at one end with eyes whichreceive the bar portion 4: of the frame and the said links are alsoconnected with the figures 9 which simulate horizontal bar performers.Marbles or balls 10 are used as missiles and the said marbles or ballsare shot or projected over the upper surface of the board 1.

When the apparatus is in use a player casts or shoots one of the marblesor balls 10 over the board toward one of the frames 3. In the event thatthe marble or ball strikes the figure 9 swinging from the said frame andcauses the said figure to rotate once about the bar portion 4, thatplayer is entitled to a score equal to the denomination of the scorefigure 7, at the base of the said frame. Should the figure be struck asufficient force to cause it to rotate twice about the bar portion theplayer is entitled to a score equal to twice the amount of the scorefigure adjacent the said frame.

Should the figure 9 be struck in a manner to cause one of the links 8 topass beyond the end of the bar portion 4 and catch against the innerside of either of the loops or bends 5 whereby the figure is heldsuspended upon the bar portion, the player who causes such movement onthe part of the figure 9 may be entitled to a score equal to three timesthe denomination of the adjacent score figure or he may be subjected toa reduction of the score previously attained as a penalty for strikingthe figure in a manner to cause an incomplete rotation or movement ofthe same about the bar portion 4 of the frame.

Therefore it will be seen that a game apparatus of simple structuralarrangement is provided and that in using the same considerable skilland judgment must be exercised to cause the figures 9 to move properlyabout the bar portion 4 upon which they normally hang.

Having described the invention what is claimed is A game apparatuscomprising a board, a frame mounted thereon and having an intermediatebar portion With upstanding loops ent from the bar at a point betweenthe loops formed at the ends thereof, links having eyes but when thelinks move upon the loops the which receive the said bar portion andWhich figure is held in elevated position.

are movable upon the loops and a figure con- In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature. 10 nected With the links, the parts being soarranged that the figure normally hangs pend- MILLIE M. DEIBEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G.

